Roving Mars is finally coming to Southern California! It will be showing at the IMAX theater at Universal CityWalk starting this Friday, August 18, 2006. Gosh, it sure took long enough.

I saw it at the screening they did for JPL employees at the California Science Center, and thoroughly enjoyed it. So I recommend it highly! It amused me to no end that the movie closes with the rover rotating its cameras towards the ground as twilight falls over Mars, and the narrator intoning, “and then one day, Spirit will go to sleep and not wake up…”